Tomorrow is my favorite day of the year. No, I don’t trick-or-treat. No, I’m not into holidays for the devil. But the last day of October has been more than “All Hallows’ Eve” for 489 years now.
It’s Reformation Day. It’s the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the Ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, the hammer heard ’round the world. The Reformation started by declaring that man could not buy forgiveness of sin from God with money, and by the time it was up to full speed it was declaring that man could not do anything to save himself, because “salvation is of the Lord.”
So what has happened to the churches that protested against the Roman Catholic Church? Looking across the evangelical landscape, it seems like most churches have returned to believing that man must cooperate with God for salvation, to the point that the gospel has been compromised in the name of reaching lost people. But when the gospel is made acceptable to lost people, then it isn’t the gospel anymore, because “the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2:14).
Steve Camp is calling on Christians to fast and pray for a new Reformation. Consider joining him in repentance and crying out to God to revive us with a revival of the Spirit. Really, it seems that the church needs to return to the Reformation of Luther and Calvin, but in effect it is much the same as starting over again.
